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With the news that Supreme Court Justice David Souter will retire next month, speculation about the president's first pick has zipped into high gear. Conservatives fear a sharp move to the left,...
DATE: May 5, 2009 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
While the existence of the Electoral College provides the very real possibility of the seating of a presidential candidate who did not win the popular vote, it is a counterbalance that has its...
DATE: May 3, 2009 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
In two ceremonies Saturday morning, Fort Lewis College conferred degrees on 560 graduates, sending them into the world with a quality education. The school and the students it produced deserve...
DATE: May 3, 2009 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
In the past, La Plata County worked well with both landowners and the gas industry to resolve land-use conflicts. County regulations balanced the rights of surface owners and mineral owners to...
DATE: May 3, 2009 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Like the Energizer Bunny, the Legislature keeps going and going and going.Earlier, it was predicted we'd be done by May 1, but that's not to be. We have three possible days left, and then we'll be...
DATE: May 3, 2009 | COLUMN: Life in the Legislature
There are not many days left in the current legislative session with adjournment scheduled for Wednesday.The budget finally is done, and all the bills that I was the prime sponsor on are finished....
DATE: May 2, 2009 | COLUMN: Capitol Report
In picking the famously loquacious Joe Biden as his running mate, Barack Obama caused many to question his judgment. While obviously bright, and relatively untainted by scandal, the veteran senator...
DATE: May 1, 2009 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
The news is filled with reports of a new strain of influenza, one that may or may not cause the global pandemic that epidemiologists have warned eventually will occur. Federal and state sources are...
DATE: April 28, 2009 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
By James H. Foster and J. Douglas ShandNo sooner had Doug Price, president and CEO of Rocky Mountain PBS, visited Durango to meet and thank donors than word came out about proposed legislation -...
DATE: April 26, 2009 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
We're in the final stages of the legislative session, and the pace of the bills moving through is at warp speed. This, in part, is because the budget finally is working its way through both the...
DATE: April 26, 2009 | COLUMN: Life in the Legislature
The hardest group to sell on national health reform is those who don't desperately need it. That would include Americans who already have coverage through a workplace, about 160 million in all, and...
DATE: April 24, 2009 | COLUMN: Froma Harrop
Some of you may have already read about the passage of Senate Bill-108, also known as Funding Advancement for Surface Transportation and Economic Recovery - or FASTER. This bill, which was signed...
DATE: April 22, 2009 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
